[jwh_Denver]

$hit Happens.

Yes it does. Did you have your laugh over the 3000 that died 2 years ago? Why should you laugh over 15000 that died this summer in France? I dislike France as much as the next FReeper but we are in an idealogical war with them not a military war.

[norton]

$hit still happens.

I do NOT believe that I owe my enemies sympathy.

Where sympathy is offered, they should damn well respect and REMEMBER it.

I've seen too many allies dropped as we headed on to the next adventure to worry about the bad guys overmuch.

And the French are the bad guys - all you need to do is keep track of their friends.

[Fledermaus]

Because it's their socialist ideals of government that created these deaths.

And they stick their noses up at anyone that disagrees with them.

No one is "laughing" at the death of 15,000 (almost 5,000 in Italy also) but are laughing at their hubris, their arrogance, their smug attitudes about how much better they are.

The French and the EU dares lecture the US about 300 deaths of our troops in Iraq while 15,000 die of a small heat wave?

Socialism is a failure. And that is a laughing matter since most of us intelligent people with true common sense have spent decades pointing that out.